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Sisters Say They Found Maggots In Candy Bar ("Felt it move in my mouth")
WFTV ^ | 4/30/05

Posted on 04/30/2005 5:26:07 AM PDT by KidGlock

Sisters Say They Found Maggots In Candy Bar

POSTED: 1:55 pm EDT April 29, 2005

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Two Boca Raton sisters said they bit into some candy bars this week and surprisingly got a good dose of protein. They said they were trying out the new candy called M-azing, but ended up getting maggots.

Monica Castanheeira said she bought some M-azing chocolate bars Tuesday night to enjoy while watching videos with her sister, Renee, and her 4-year-old neice.

Castanheeira said she took a big bite and then felt something moving in her mouth.

"I look on the table and on the chocolate, and there's a maggot walking around," she said. "It's really disgusting."

The sisters said they found maggots in each of their chocolate bars. They said they found some that were very small and crawling and others had yet to hatch.

The sisters are so sickened, they went to the emergency room. They said the child is convinced there are bugs walking around in her stomach.

"We're investigating, obviously," said Master Foods USA, the producer of the chocolate. "And we're really sorry. Maggots are a result of fly larvae and could happen in a matter of days after our products have left our factories."

"When I think about it, I still feel it on my tongue," Castanheeira said. "I can't eat chocolate no more."

Castanheeira said she bought the candy at a Shell gas station. She said all the candy is off the shelves because she went back and bought it all to see if it was infested.

A state health investigator has been assigned to the case and will check out the candy bars as well.


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To: KidGlock

Happend to me once with a baby ruth bar. It was covered with boll weavils. I can't eat them to this day, weavils that is. I do still like baby ruth bars.


41 posted on 04/30/2005 6:14:14 AM PDT by jeffsg4mac
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To: joonbug

the maggots can be DNA tested to see if they actually consumed/lived on the chocolate.


42 posted on 04/30/2005 6:31:59 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: edskid

yes inch worms love broccoli and are the same color.


43 posted on 04/30/2005 6:34:00 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: jeffsg4mac
I was in a "Subway" watching my sandwich being constructed when the employee was suddenly seized with an irresistable urge to sneeze. His hands were full and he let out a tremendous uncovered sneeze, directed straight at the entire food contents behind the glass, while I stood dumbfounded on the other side, watching the entire sequence.

As you might expect, after overcoming my speechlessness, I politely cancelled my order.

Hard to walk into a Subway still.

44 posted on 04/30/2005 6:35:35 AM PDT by WL-law
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To: Dudoight

That's not true. I remember when I was nine or so, visiting Jamaica, I bought a Cadbury chocolate bar and started to eat it. I noticed the husk of some worm-creature in the bar. I may have eaten more of them, I don't know. But I threw the rest of the bar away. No big deal, except I was denied my quota of chocolate for the day.


45 posted on 04/30/2005 6:39:01 AM PDT by rabidralph (My truck appreciates the rest of you driving fuel-efficient vehicles.)
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To: martin_fierro

" I knew we were dealing with a rocket scientist here."

I didn't know that maggots would eat chocolate.


46 posted on 04/30/2005 7:01:22 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: martin_fierro

Can you blame her? Gag.


47 posted on 04/30/2005 7:04:36 AM PDT by Log
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To: Dudoight
I have seen chocolate bars with maggots before. My mother used to hide chocolate and then forget where she hid and we found it more than once with maggots. I would imagine the larvae had to be there before it was wrapped.

Of course that was years ago and who would think of contacting the media and suing.

The worst I ever did was write the Dove soap people and lied that I couldn't find it in my town and I loved their soap and they sent me a whole case.

48 posted on 04/30/2005 7:06:11 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Dudoight

I hope we do hear the truth too. I don't know if they were truly maggots, but I have seen WORMS in chocolate candy bars, and believe me, it isn't very appetizing to think you might have just eaten one!


49 posted on 04/30/2005 7:06:24 AM PDT by Log
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To: KidGlock

I bought a jar of picante sauce a couple of years ago, and it had a metal spoon inside the sealed jar. Go figure that one out.


50 posted on 04/30/2005 7:09:09 AM PDT by Log
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To: Dudoight

Let me assure you that it happens. It happened to me once with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.


51 posted on 04/30/2005 7:09:44 AM PDT by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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To: Blueflag

This same thing happened to me with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup that I had just purchased from the store.


52 posted on 04/30/2005 7:10:35 AM PDT by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

It happened to me with a Reese's.


53 posted on 04/30/2005 7:11:44 AM PDT by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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To: Dudoight

I believe this because it happened to me a few years ago.


54 posted on 04/30/2005 7:14:49 AM PDT by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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To: joonbug

Maggots from fly larvae do but larvae from grain beetles and other agricultural pests don't.


55 posted on 04/30/2005 7:32:02 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (Elvis was born 40 miles South of here and Carl Perkins 40 miles north of here. Rock on.....)
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To: KidGlock
Nothing wrong with a little protein in the junk food.....
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56 posted on 04/30/2005 7:48:01 AM PDT by b4its2late (Liberals are good examples of why some animals eat their young.)
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To: KidGlock
Castanheeira said she took a big bite and then felt something moving in her mouth.

"Felt in her mouth, not in her hand."

 

57 posted on 04/30/2005 7:49:21 AM PDT by Semi Civil Servant
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To: KidGlock

Mo money, Mo money........


58 posted on 04/30/2005 7:50:08 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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To: KidGlock
"Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution. "

Mandatory MP ref.

59 posted on 04/30/2005 7:55:37 AM PDT by P.O.E. (My poetic license has expired.)
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To: martin_fierro

I don't know why they're bitching: those candy bars came with extra protein supplement. They ought to be THANKING the store where they bought the stuff.


60 posted on 04/30/2005 8:03:57 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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